Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
It’s fun to start with a small user base. The downtime is rough, and I have some minor issues with it like the fact that deleting a comment hides all of the replies to that comment. Overal, though, it’s kew.
weirdly the downtime is mainly from DDOS attacks, apparently
Pretty good. haven’t even been to reddit after I switched!
I’m just still missing communities that are only on Reddit rn.
Other than that… I’d argue the Lemmy ux is already far superior, so that’s great.
It’s a give an take. I do miss some of the communities but at this time lemmy is more intimate. Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind. As an early adopter on lemmy you can help build and participate more readily. Nothing like having a comment on a thread with 1,000 comments and thinking ‘fuck it no one cares.’ Or worse trying to hamstring your comment into the top 6 or 7 threads for visablity alone.
Some of my favorite communities are so big, being a part of the discussion is like pissing in the wind.
I dig the analogy and had to chuckle.
Successful! A full reddit replacement!
The cons is the Sync app (or maybe it’s deeper), comments seem to be under the wrong parent threads?
To be fair it’s still in beta and that’s a known issue, so hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.
It’s quite good as long as a thread is not political. As soon as anything even remotely political starts being discussed, it devolves into an absolute shitshow, political opinions on Lemmy seem to be much more extreme than on Reddit for some reason.
I think it could be because Reddit has more users from the US, and the fediverse is more a mixed bunch.
It’s because there are prominent leftist/communist communities here, so obviously they are threads in /all and comment
I found Lemmy to be better for my mental health. I recently visited Reddit again to follow on a heated topic since Reddit has more info and news, and found my anxiety levels skyrocket due to the toxicity of comments.
While Lemmy has less engagement than Reddit, that also leads to a more level-headed community.
That, and with new Lemmy apps and experiences being developed constantly, I’m liking it here a lot.
Aside from the russian shills, fine and dandy.
Names yourself after a communist, thinks communists are russian shills.
daily user of Lemmy at this point, fuck Reddit
Feels like OG reddit back in the day with less niche subs and with an /all that is more readable (and with the occasional surprise nsfw reddit used to have). I feel that in reddit I had drifted to only reading my own curated sub list, and barely reading /all due to the toxicity
Only rarely do I get back to reddit, mostly because one of the sport subs, which has a repost bot on lemmy, shows an article I want to read the comments on.
Yes sometimes the polarized instances get a bit annoying, I find them managable and interesting to see what these communities are talking about every now and then.
I do wish NSFW was more granular. A lot of the things I’d like on my feed wouldn’t necessarily be what you’d want to have open in the office but I also don’t want it to be full of porn. Not anti-porn or anything I just don’t want it in my feed 24/7.
You could always set your work acc to not display anything labeled NSFW in settings.
Authoritarian propaganda is kind of ruining it for me. I came in excited to help build something together and now I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
Maybe I’d recommend an instance that doesn’t federate with Hexbear, ExplodingHeads, or Lemmygrad.
Same, I get that people have different political backgrounds, and even hope to be part of a group with different opinions, but some of those instances are just so far removed that I just block them
I’ve had some luck blocking instances within mobile apps, but that doesn’t scale well if the number of toxic instances is constantly growing. I’m curious to see how this gets addressed in the long run (or if it is left as is, since it is technically working as designed).
I was going to say “what authoritarian propaganda” because I don’t see any of that shit, but yeah, my instance doesn’t federate with those places. The strength and the weakness of a federated system, I suppose!
It gets better once you find interesting subs. I think it scratches the same itch and I plan to continue using it. I do have some concerns about the community, however. I guess I was hoping it would be less of an echo chamber and have a more nuanced and in depth discussion.
I haven’t really found that and I think it’s more or less the same as reddit most of the time.
I also miss browsing through the short video subs like /r/crazyfuckingvideos once a week or so just to see some crazy things.
However, I do find there is actually pretty good discussion on tech stuff and you do find some geopolitics/ political discussion if you read through some of the ideological drudgery a bit.
So all in all, I think Lemmy so far has been a positive experience for me and I’m committed to remaining here for the foreseeable future. At the end of the day - it’s an open source decentralized community. I’ll put up with a lot of shit just because of that. No chance I’d be going back to reddit.
For technical discussions I still find Hacker News much better than both Lemmy and Reddit.
So I used lemmy world and then lemmy winks because world had up time issues and now I keep making ones on new instances seeing as winks seems to be dead
Memes are about the only consistent content on lemmy
A little disappointed - I wish there was a bit more variety in the communities. There are some smaller ones but there are very few people there, so it’s not much of a conversation.
The only other complaint I would have is seeing an article and then 3-4 communities in each of the big 3-4 instances all talk about the same thing. So you’ll be scrolling and see over a dozen conversations about Linus, which is a little annoying.
Have you heard about the problem with Linus media group???
My favorite app didn’t port and my main community didn’t migrate. I’m still not planning to go back to Reddit, but definitely feeling the change.
Damn that’s ass. But also I can’t help but feel the community is full of idiots. There’s 0 reason to stay on reddit unless you like getting fucked in the ass by corpos
Switched to lemmy 100% after 17+ years of reddit, daily user. I think it’s ok but increasingly getting annoyed with a couple things. The rampant extreme politics and phrasing as if it’s fact, and people complain about cross posts but I literally see the same exact posts (same community) over and over as I scroll through the feed. Other than that it doesn’t nearly have much content but that’s to be expected.
